I am not American, but I think my statement can be said to be true of the US, UK, France, Canada, Spain and Italy at the very least since these are countries whose recent elections I have followed a bit.

All cars are death machines

That word sounds like someone was found innocent of a crime on account of a shoe

I will go ahead and be the only person to honestly engage with the terms of your question.

There is a movement that started a long time ago and continues today to “domesticate” boys. Boys are invariably more disobedient in controlled classrooms and group activities and so they need to be “broken in” and taught how to conform to the requirements of modern life and education. Girls tend to fit into this structure more easily as can be attested by the higher educational outcomes among women in countries that allow them to achieve it.

With this in mind there is a lot of resentment against this “breaking in” process. This metastasizes when boys hear all about how “toxic” they are by virtue of how they were born, how much more trouble they are to deal with etc. The emotional response is to resist all attempts to demasculinize them, even in the case of something as inconsequential as bathroom etiquette.

This is an honest representation of the perspective in question. Don’t get all passed off at me for being capable of presenting it.

IE regulatory capture and soothing bullshit?

The cats take valuable couch space

Step 1: do not poop for three days straight

I don’t think anyone needs any movies in their life at all. People would like a minecraft movie in their lives because they like mine craft I presume.

There is no intelligent operator in a neuron

The Chinese Room by Searle

Dude, I’m not your mom for you to complain to about the state of things. What I said is 100% true, and whinging won’t make it less true. This is how these huge companies stay in control of our lives, and now this is how they are going to install fascism. Do with that info what you will.

None of those are essential serveices. There is no alternative, those are just not essential things. In order to get those non essential things we will all stay signed into for the neo nazi revenue and messaging machine.

It doesn’t sound like you need any help getting people to not talk to you, but I think making you not appear to be an asshole might be beyond the scope of a lemmy post.

The idea that an average person in the US is anywhere near starving is ridiculous. Except a tiny, almost vanishingly small minority, americans would be healtier consuming significantly less.

Are there no prisons! Are there no workhouses!

Star trek is a big plate of mashed potatoes. People eat because it isn’t exciting.

The above persons whole comment is a reaction to something completely different from what I said. Was there an attempt to listen and connect on their part? Not really.

I actually said a billion people live on it, but why let reading get in the way of a defensive rant about meat.

There is nothing unfuflfilling about beans and rice. This is the staple diet of almost a billion people. We are just so far removed from reality that we think of a healthy diet as a terrible punishment.

They are animals so no